Drake Place Residences
4th and Rhode Island Avenue
8th and H Retail Center
Atlas Theater
John A. Wilson Plaza
USA Auto Zone
Greater Northeast Medical Center
H Street CDC
Lincoln Mews Townhouses
13th Street Townhouses
Bossard Manor Townhomes
Douglass Townhomes
Tyler House Apartments

From the beginning, H Street CDC has focused on revitalizing underdeveloped neighborhoods by developing affordable housing and commercial centers. We have accomplished more than $70 million in commercial and residential development projects, totaling more than 330,000 square feet of commercial space, 284 units of low-income rental housing, and 47 affordable single-family owner-occupant homes.

The projects have created more than 1,200 jobs in underserved neighborhoods, and provided more than $100 million in contracts for goods and services from more than 200 minority contractors.

Drake Place Residences
5403-5411 D Street S.E.

H Street CDC proposes to develop this site as housing. The project is in the planning stage.

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4th and Rhode Island Avenue
2313-2321 Rhode Island Avenue NE

H Street CDC proposes to develop 170 rental apartments on this 39,100 square foot site adjacent to the Rhode Island Avenue Plaza Shopping Center. The nine-story structure will include 3,000 square feet of ground-level space for retail or professional services and community use. The project, in the Edgewood community, replaces a dilapidated structure which was once known as D.C.’s “heroin hotel” and which has been demolished in preparation for construction.

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8th and H Retail Center
721 H Street N.E.

H Street CDC developed the 6,500-square-foot retail facility at 8th and H Streets N.E., on property that had been vacant, abandoned, and a neighborhood eyesore and center of criminal activity for many years. The facility opened in Spring 2004, and includes a Foot Locker store, a SunTrust ATM facility, and other retail outlets. The $2.5-million project involved a financing partnership with the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) of Washington, D.C., SunTrust Bank, the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta, and the D.C. Department of Housing and Community Development.

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Atlas Theater
1333 H Street N.E.

The H Street CDC completed the sale of the historic but long-vacant Atlas Theater in September 2002 to an affiliate of the Sprenger Lang Foundation for renovation as the Atlas Performing Arts Center. The H Street CDC acquired the property in 1985, renovated the façade in 1989, and worked to find a suitable buyer and redeveloper. The new theater and dance studio opened in March 2005 and there are plans for community-related activities, laboratory theaters, a restaurant, and classes in dance, drama, playwriting and theater arts.

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John A. Wilson Plaza
600 H Street N.E.

A 230,000 square foot, $20 million office/retail project in the 600 block of H Street N.E., was completed in approximately 1990 and leased for DC Government offices.

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USA Auto Zone
1207 H Street N.E.

H Street CDC purchased and developed this corner parcel as an 8,027 square foot retail facility in 1998. It is leased to USA Auto Zone.

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Greater Northeast Medical Center
1647 Benning Road N.E.

Responding to the need for close-to-home health care services in Northeast neighborhoods, H Street CDC developed the Greater Northeast Medical Center as an office building for medical professionals in approximately 1990. Though H Street CDC later sold the property, it continues in operation today as a modern, convenient center for the offices of physicians, optometrists, and dentists.

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H Street CDC
501 H Street N.E.

H Street CDC acquired the 501 H Street property when it was vacant and abandoned, and developed it in 1996 for use as its headquarters office and training center. The development served as an anchor to encourage repairs and upgrading of other nearby properties.

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Lincoln Mews Townhouses

Twenty-two townhouses at 8th and H and 10th and G Streets N.E. were developed and sold to owner-occupants in the early 1990s.

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13th Street Townhouses
13th and Wylie Streets N.E.

H Street CDC renovated four townhouses and sold them to first-time homebuyers in 1996, helping the Wylie Street neighborhood ward off a tide of blight.

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Bossard Manor Townhomes

Five new units of affordable for-sale housing were developed at 7th and Girard Streets N.E. in 2000.

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Douglass Townhomes

Nine new units of affordable owner-occupied housing were developed in the 800 block of 10th Street N.E. in 2001.

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Tyler House Apartments
1200 North Capitol Street N.W.

H Street CDC and its development partners acquired the dilapidated Tyler House Apartments and completed a $27 million renovation in 1997. Today, the 284-unit rental building provides safe and comfortable housing, services, and recreational facilities for low- and moderate-income tenants.

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